A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest

Deep in the meadow, hidden far away<br /> A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray<br /> Forget your woes and let your troubles lay<br /> And when it's morning...

Seven Deadly Sins<br /> <br /> Wealth without work<br /> Pleasure without conscience<br /> Science without humanity<br /> Knowledge without...

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live

You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the...

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music

I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people...

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you are now

Whatever you are, be a good one

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane